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Sergio Aguirre
Sergio Aguirre is the founder and CEO of EchoPixel, a Silicon Valley medical imaging company that turns standard CT, MRI and ultrasound scans into interactive 3D holograms doctors can grab, rotate and dissect in open space. An electrical engineer from Tecnologico de Monterrey with a graduate focus on stereoscopic imaging, he spent more than 15 years in visualization systems before founding EchoPixel in 2012. His True3D platform earned FDA clearance and has been used in congenital heart defect detection and structural heart procedures, built on his conviction that doctors should not have to solve a 3D problem with a 2D picture.
Vahid Saadat
Vahid Saadat is a serial medical device entrepreneur and co-founder and co-CEO of Inquis Medical, a Menlo Park, California company building the AVENTUS Thrombectomy System for treating venous thromboembolic disease and pulmonary embolism. With more than 25 years in medtech and over 200 issued and pending patents, he has founded or led a string of companies including Voyage Medical, USGI Medical, AngioTrax, Baxano and Arrinex (maker of ClariFix, later acquired by Stryker). He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and runs Inquis alongside co-CEO Mojgan Saadat.
Gregory Fischer
Gregory Fischer is the co-founder and CEO of AiM Medical Robotics, a Worcester, Massachusetts company building a portable, MRI-compatible surgical robot for neurosurgery. A robotics engineer with a PhD from Johns Hopkins, Fischer spent nearly two decades as a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he directed the Automation and Interventional Medicine (AIM) Robotics Lab and founded the PracticePoint medtech R&D center. He turned his NIH-funded research into a company aiming to bring real-time image guidance and submillimeter robotic precision into the operating room, with a first-in-human clinical study on the horizon after a $8.1 million Series A in 2025.
Howard Rosen
Howard Rosen is the CEO and co-founder of Evident Vascular, a San Jose medtech startup building an AI-powered intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) platform for peripheral and coronary interventions. A 30-year cardiovascular device veteran, he spent 21 years at Boston Scientific before helping guide Intact Vascular and its spinout Vesper Medical through acquisitions by Philips. He launched Evident out of stealth in 2023 with a $35 million Series A led by Vensana Capital and closed a Series B in 2025. He is known for a disciplined 'go slow to go fast' company-building philosophy.
John Joyoprayitno
John Joyoprayitno is the President, CEO, and co-founder of Alafair Biosciences, an Austin-based medical device company building bioresorbable hydrogel implants that protect soft tissue during surgery. A native Austinite who studied anthropology before switching to entrepreneurship, he has built and run ventures ranging from a triathlon bike shop to the custom-car outfit Austin Speed Shop, and now leads a commercial-stage medtech firm best known for its VersaWrap product line. Under his leadership Alafair posted 722% year-over-year growth, and he was named Austin Business Journal's 2024 Best CEO and made Inc.'s 2025 Business Leader of the Year list.
Rohit Hiwale
Rohit Hiwale is the co-founder and CEO of Morphle Labs, a Y Combinator W20 deep-tech company building robotic microtomes and high-throughput whole slide scanners for digital pathology. An IIT Kharagpur computer science graduate and second-time founder with prior engineering stints at Yahoo, WalmartLabs and Rippling, he is trying to automate the physical and imaging bottlenecks at the core of cancer diagnostics.
Yunfei Cao
Yunfei 'Richard' Cao is the co-founder and CEO of Angio8 (通甪科技), a Shenzhen-based startup building a next-generation surgical robot for minimally invasive vascular interventional surgery. A Stony Brook biomedical engineer who cut his teeth inside the Boston medical-device machine at Vention Medical, SunMed and China Med Device, Cao now runs a cross-Pacific company - engineering brains in Boston, manufacturing and clinical work in Shenzhen - aimed at letting doctors steer catheters and guidewires by robot instead of by hand.
Coach Wei
Coach Wei is a serial technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Neural Galaxy, a brain-science company spun out of Harvard Medical School and MIT that maps the individual human brain and delivers personalized neuromodulation therapy for brain disorders. A Tsinghua University electrical engineer with an MS from MIT, he began building software at EMC before founding three venture-backed startups over two decades: Nexaweb (pioneering Rich Internet Applications), Yottaa (web performance and cloud), and now Neural Galaxy, which has raised roughly $100M including a $75M Series A. He holds six patents and was named to Boston's 40 Under 40.
Mina Fahim
Mina Fahim is the CEO and President of MediView XR, a Cleveland-based medical technology company giving clinicians a form of 3D 'X-ray vision' by fusing CT scans and live ultrasound into holograms surgeons can see through a headset. A University of Minnesota-trained biomedical engineer and former Medtronic research engineer, he helped steer MediView to the first FDA 510(k) clearance for an AR device that combines live imaging with 3D XR visualization (the XR90), a $24M Series A led by GE HealthCare, and the world's first-in-human AR tumor ablation at the Cleveland Clinic. His mantra: simplify, democratize, and inform care.
Neil Ray
Neil P. Ray, MD is a board-certified pediatric anesthesiologist who traded the operating room for a startup. As founder and CEO of Raydiant Oximetry, he is building Lumerah, a non-invasive fetal pulse oximeter that reads a baby's oxygen levels through the mother's abdomen, and Daisy, a surgical device to prevent postpartum hemorrhage. His goal: retire a 50-year-old fetal monitor he calls no better than a coin toss, and cut the number of unnecessary C-sections that follow from it.
Robert Masson
Robert Masson is a neurosurgeon turned founder who runs eXeX (Expanded Existence), an AI and mixed-reality platform that captures surgical mastery and pipes holographic guidance into the sterile field. With more than three decades of spine surgery and 13,000-plus procedures behind him, he made global headlines for bringing the Apple Vision Pro into the operating room as a touch-free logistics tool. He is also the founder of the Masson Spine Institute and, at 52, raced to a podium at the Rolex 24 at Daytona alongside his eldest son.
William Ware
William Ware is the co-founder and CEO of DoseOptics LLC, a Dartmouth-affiliated medtech company in Lebanon, New Hampshire that turns a faint blue glow into a safety tool for cancer patients. Its systems image Cherenkov light - the same eerie glow seen in nuclear reactors - to show radiation dose landing on a patient in real time during treatment. A Thayer School of Engineering alumnus with a chemical engineering background, Ware has launched more than 20 patented products across pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, textiles, and medical devices, and partnered DoseOptics with Vision RT to fold Cherenkov imaging into mainstream radiotherapy.
Abhishek Ramkumar
Abhishek Ramkumar is the founder and CEO of Abram Scientific, a Menlo Park medtech company building CoagCare, a handheld point-of-care platform that reads the full blood-clotting story from a single drop in under ten minutes. A biomedical engineer with a PhD from Cornell and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, he spent years at PARC and Blue Highway inventing diagnostic and surgical devices before turning a hard physics problem - measuring blood viscoelasticity and density in a vibration-proof wireless meter - into 17 granted patents and an $11.75M Series A led by Octapharma in 2026. His pitch is simple and life-or-death: get the right transfusion to the right patient at the right time, whether that patient is on an operating table or in a MEDEVAC helicopter.
Amaury Ciurana
Amaury Ciurana is the co-founder and CEO of REEV, a wearable-robotics company building intelligent motorized orthoses for people with neurological gait disorders. A French aerospace engineer trained at ISAE-SUPAERO and the X-HEC entrepreneurship track, he relocated to Boston in 2023 to lead REEV's US expansion. The company pairs DREEVEN, an AI-powered robotic knee orthosis, with REEV SENSE, a wearable gait-analysis system, and has raised roughly $14M total including a $9.2M round in 2025.
Aram Salzman
Aram Salzman is the CEO and co-founder of AngioWave Imaging, a Boston-area medtech company building AI that sharpens the blurry, fast-moving X-ray movies cardiologists rely on during heart catheterizations. He is a serial healthcare founder whose earlier company, NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, produced teixobactin, the first new class of antibiotic discovered in decades. He also co-founded and exited CRA Health and Boston Lighthouse Innovations.
Darryl Barnes
Darryl Barnes is a physician-turned-inventor who co-founded Sonex Health, an Eagan, Minnesota medtech company building ultrasound-guided devices that move carpal tunnel and trigger finger surgery out of the operating room and into the clinic office. A former Mayo Clinic sports medicine doctor, he co-invented the UltraGuideCTR device, holds numerous medical device patents, and helped raise more than $60 million to scale the company. He has served as both CEO and chief technology officer, and was named Medical Devices CEO of the Year for the Upper Midwest in 2018.
John Sjölund
John Sjölund is the CEO and co-founder of Luna Diabetes, a San Diego medical-device company building a small overnight patch pump that automates insulin dosing for the tens of millions of people who use pens rather than pumps. A Swedish-American inventor named on 30-plus patents, he previously founded Timesulin with his brother Andreas (a co-creator of Skype), sold it to Bigfoot Biomedical in 2017, then built the Bigfoot Unity connected dosing system that Abbott acquired in 2023. In August 2025 Luna raised a $23.6M Series A led by Vensana Capital.
Steve Xu
Steve Xu is a board-certified dermatologist turned medtech founder who runs Sibel Health, the Chicago company commercializing ICU-grade wearable sensors that now monitor patients in more than 20 countries. A physician-engineer trained at Rice, Harvard, and the London School of Economics, he splits his life between the clinic, the lab at Northwestern's Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, and a startup chasing a single line: Better Health Data for All.